A Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
American - Novelist
July 4, 1804 - May 19, 1864

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of existences, because to exist is an act, not a thing.

Etienne Gilson

The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.

George Herbert

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I was very ill at ease with people in social situations, and I realized that if I photographed I wouldn't have to chat.

Martine Franck

I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.

Andrea Barrett

It has been my experience that people who are at cross-purposes with nature are cynical about mankind and ill at ease with themselves.

Indira Gandhi

I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.

John Lydon

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

Thomas A. Edison

Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe.

Archibald MacLeish

Poise: the ability to be ill at ease inconspicuously.

Earl Wilson

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Ovid

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality

Michel de Montaigne

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Ovid

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